Can mdev replace udev in an ordinary linux distro?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 15 12:03:14 UTC 2011


On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk> wrote:
> Sure, but devtmpfs is simpler and faster (mdev -s can take a while on
> slow hw).

I suspected it might be slow. It recompiles every regex on every check.

On what hardware did you observed mdev -s being noticeably slow?
How sow was it?

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